A certain ratio

Post Springfield and before the Goldrush, two nights with Neil and his guitar in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The Louis Vuitton don ditches the rapping and the soul and is left with… well, not much, actually

More talk from the judges today, as they get to grips with the debut from Vampire Weekend.

A strange moment, on Friday night. Sitting somewhere quite close to the roof of the O2 Arena, it seems to me as if several thousand people are singing, simultaneously, in a scarcely-audible whisper. Onstage, Leonard Cohen and his extraordinary band are playing “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye”, with a softness, precision and clarity that I can rarely recall hearing at an arena show.

Finally, we're pleased to announce that the winners of the first Uncut Music Award are Fleet Foxes for their debut album, "Fleet Foxes". Over the next couple of weeks, we'll be posting transcripts of the judges' deliberations here. Today, we start with the judges' summing-up. . .

Uncut presents extended transcripts with those on the road with the icon

A suitably hefty compendium - five early, extravagant albums, extras, plus archive video footage

Low-key heist thriller of ruthless intelligence

Just spent a few minutes online learning about a musical genre that, until a few days ago, I must admit I’d never heard of. It’s called kuduro, a combination of ballistic African percussion samples with raw, bouncing techno soundsystems and rapping, that seems to have originated in Angola and spread across the Portuguese-speaking world all the way back to Lisbon.

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